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While the IRGC’s spokesman, Brig. Gen. Hossein Mohebbi, tells his audience that “with God’s permission, we will become the world’s absolute superpower in the final war” (and that their destiny in this “apocalyptic” confrontation is absolute victory), Tehran is quietly wiring tens of millions of dollars to Hezbollah.According to Lebanese security sources briefed on the group’s activities and cited by Reuters, Hezbollah has spent the past three months using a relative lull since June to rearm specifically for a possible new round with Israel. The priorities: procuring explosives and producing drones meant to hit Israeli positions. That military cash is on top of the roughly $200 million Iran already sent earlier this month for displaced families in Hezbollah’s Shiite heartlands. The group is also trying to patch up command-and-control structures that got shredded in previous battles. It still hasn’t fully restocked or rebuilt its force to the level it wants. Explosives seized by Lebanese authorities were acknowledged as belonging to Hezbollah and intended for those explosive drones .So the “absolute superpower” trajectory runs through bankrolling a proxy that just took severe losses, still can’t fully reconstitute, and operates in a country where Israeli forces occupy southern villages and political pressure for disarmament is growing in Beirut. Classic IRGC playbook: pour money into the “resistance” axis, keep the front alive, and sell the resulting attrition as evidence of divine momentum and eventual global supremacy.The gap between the rhetoric and the ledger is hard to miss. While Mohebbi frames the current confrontation as the stage on which Iran emerges as the world’s leading power, the practical output is cash for drones and explosives for a group that remains a fraction of its pre-2024 strength. Same pattern as always, proxies absorb the hits, Iranian civilians get the bill (currency collapse, protests, shortages), and the regime narrates every setback as proof it is winning the long game. The “final war” keeps getting postponed until the next transfer clears. Whether this latest infusion is enough to change the military balance is an open question; the sources themselves say Hezbollah is not yet ready. What it does confirm is that the regime’s idea of superpower status still depends on keeping battered clients in the fight rather than fixing its own collapsing economy or negotiating from strength. History suggests that strategy has limits.

Moscow wants NATO frozen in 1997. Cool story, Vlad. We’re not rewinding the calendar to the Middle Ages just because the empire’s ghost is still sulking.1997 was the year the Soviet Union had already been dead for six years, the Warsaw Pact was in the bin, and half of Eastern Europe was begging to get out from under Russian boots. They joined NATO because they wanted to , not because someone held a gun to their head in Brussels. Poland, the Baltics, Czechs, Hungarians, Romanians… they looked at what happened to their neighbours every time Moscow got insecure and said “nah, hard pass.”You don’t get to demand the map go back to before those countries chose their own security because your sphere of influence feels smaller now. That’s not diplomacy. That’s medieval vassal logic with better PR. NATO didn’t “expand.” Countries applied. The door was open. You just hate that they walked through it.